New Sagebrush Conservation Project for Nevada and California

State,
federal, and non-profit organizations plan to sign a cooperative Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) for proactive sagebrush conservation and restoration across
Nevada and the Bi-State area along the California/Nevada border.

The
purpose of this MOU is to provide a collaborative framework to accomplish
common goals related to the restoration, enhancement, and conservation of
sage-steppe habitat.

“This
partnership is modeled on the highly successful Burley Project in Idaho and
will allow Nevada partners to cooperatively pool resources across the state,”
says Pheasants Forever SGI Field Capacity Coordinator Michael Brown.

The
primary components to this partnership and MOU are to: control invading
conifers in mutually agreed upon priority watersheds; implement practices
across landownerships designed to reduce the risk of fire and invasive species
in the Great Basin Region; and restore and enhance wet meadow habitats in
mutually agreed upon priority watersheds across state, federal, and private
property to accelerate sagebrush ecosystem conservation.